strategy
Ensuring right of NGOs to initiate legal action to protect the public interest
Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Claim:
Governments need to promulgate or strengthen, subject to country-specific conditions, any legislative measures necessary to enable the establishment by non-governmental organizations of consultative groups, and to ensure the right of non-governmental organizations to protect the public interest through legal action. Subjects:
Action → Action Social Activity → Nongovernmental
Societal Problems → Protection
Government → Public
Law → Legality
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
